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Monday, November 30, 2015

FINALS UPDATE: On Sunday, Madam Secretary (1.3) and 60 Minutes (2.6) both adjusted up. Sunday Night Football had an 8.5, up a whooping 2.2 points from last Sunday.

ABC was back in the Sunday original series game with a very weak result for Once Upon a Time (1.3), a new season/series low by multiple tenths. It wasn't quite as abnormal later in the night as Blood and Oil (0.9) returned slightly up, but Quantico (1.2) inched down to tie its series low.

CBS' lineup started just after the 8:00 hour (finally allowing for a CSI: Cyber pre-emption!). Considering the network had a national NFL overrun, it was a fairly soft night for 60 Minutes (2.5), Madam Secretary (1.2) and The Good Wife (0.9).

With no sweeps and no national overrun, Fox offered up a repeat night, sprinkling in math and science awards show "Breakthrough Prize" (0.4) at 7:00 and holiday special Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (0.9) at 8:30.

More on cable/football after finals, but part of the broadcasters' problems may have come from NBC doing even huger than usual as New England's undefeated season came to an end on Sunday Night Football. It looks like it could be up two full points or more from last week's low.

On Black Friday, the "CBS overachieves, Fox underachieves" Thanksgiving weekend trend continued as The Amazing Race (1.0) was flat, pulling ahead of competing MasterChef Junior (0.9) as it shed two tenths.

All the scripted offerings took the night off from originals. ABC replaced its comedy hour with pretty similar ratings from holiday special Santa Claus is Comin' to Town (1.1), which tied the special's rating on a Tuesday last year.

ABC's 20/20 (1.0) and NBC's Dateline (0.9) were also on the downswing but did OK given their much-diminished lead-ins from a Shark Tank repeat (1.1) and a rebroadcast of NBC's National Dog Show (0.6) from Thanksgiving Day.

Saturday featured a lot of football, with Fox's Notre Dame/Stanford pulling away from ABC's Oklahoma/Oklahoma State blowout late. (Fox led 2.4 to 1.1 in the 10:00 prelims after the two games were virtually tied in the mid-1's for the first two hours.) CBS still did big business by Saturday standards with holiday specials Frosty the Snowman (1.4), Frosty Returns (1.2) and The Story of Santa Claus (0.9). The Frosty duo virtually matched last year's 1.4/1.1 Saturday airings last December, while Story got a bit of a bounce from last year's 0.7 with a better lead-in.

FRIDAY 11/27/15 FULL TABLE:

Info

Show

Timeslot

A18-49

Skew

Last%

Last#

LeLa

Rank

y2y

TLa

Ty2y

Santa Claus is Comin' to Town

1.1

31%

+0%

-8%

+22%

Shark Tank (R)

1.0

29%

-41%

-9%

20/20

1.1

29%

-21%

-0.3

-0.7

7/9

-8%

-21%

-8%

ABC:

-26%

+0%

The Amazing Race

1.0

23%

+0%

+0.0

n/a

9/10

+0%

+0%

+0%

Hawaii Five-0 (R)

0.7

16%

-36%

-22%

Blue Bloods (R)

0.8

14%

-27%

+14%

CBS:

-22%

-4%

The National Dog Show

0.6

20%

-25%

-52%

Dateline Fri

0.9

27%

-25%

-0.3

-0.3

5/10

-31%

-25%

+0%

NBC:

-25%

-38%

MasterChef Junior

0.9

36%

-18%

-0.2

n/a

4/4

-40%

-18%

+29%

World's Funniest

0.6

42%

-14%

-0.1

-0.2

4/4

-14%

+50%

Fox:

-17%

+36%

Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer

0.4

32%

+0%

+33%

+0%

Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special

0.5

42%

+67%

+67%

Merry Madagascar

0.5

39%

+67%

+67%

+67%

CW:

+50%

+29%

Big5:

-18%

-4%

SUNDAY 11/29/15 FULL TABLE:

Info

Show

Timeslot

A18-49

Skew

Last%

Last#

LeLa

Rank

y2y

TLa

Ty2y

America's Funniest Home Videos

1.0

24%

-9%

-0.1

n/a

4/8

-17%

-9%

-17%

Once Upon a Time

1.3

38%

-19%

-0.3

+0.1

9/9

-38%

-63%

-38%

Blood and Oil

0.9

36%

+13%

+0.1

-0.3

3/8

-74%

+0%

Quantico

1.2

37%

-8%

-0.1

-0.7

8/9

-66%

+20%

ABC:

-62%

-15%

NFL Overrun

8.0

38%

-8%

-0.7

n/a

6/12

-5%

+433%

+19%

60 Minutes

2.6

23%

+73%

+1.1

n/a

5/10

-30%

+136%

-7%

Madam Secretary

1.3

17%

+18%

+0.2

+1.1

4/9

-32%

+44%

-26%

The Good Wife

0.9

14%

+0%

+0.0

+0.2

7/9

+0%

-40%

CBS:

+191%

+0%

Football Night in America p2

0.9

37%

-18%

-0.2

n/a

11/11

-53%

-44%

-71%

Football Night in America p3

4.1

41%

+2%

+0.1

n/a

9/14

-5%

+21%

-5%

Sunday Night Football

8.5

43%

-6%

-0.5

+0.1

6/14

+15%

+35%

+15%

NBC:

+42%

+22%

Breakthrough Prize

0.4

36%

-94%

-33%

The Simpsons (R)

1.0

55%

-57%

+0%

Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas

0.9

51%

+50%

-47%

-36%

Family Guy (R)

0.8

47%

-50%

-27%

The Last Man on Earth (R)

0.6

42%

-54%

-40%

Fox:

-80%

-28%

Big4:

-3%

+7%

The full table can be sorted by clicking any of the category names at the top. Hover over 'Last', 'y2y' and timeslot numbers for more information on the previous episode(s) being compared.